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RAILWAY-CHAIR AND THE METHOD OF SECURING RAILS TllERElN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 898,563, dated February 26, 1889. Application filed June 28, 1888. Serial No. 278,502. No modeld Patented in England March 10, 1888, No. 3,877.

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that I, GEORG E W ILLIAM WILL- FORD, of Shefiield, in the county of York, England, have invented new and useful Ini- 5 pro vements in Railway-Chai rs and the Method of Securing Rails Therein, (for which I have obtained a patent in Great Britain bearing date March 10, 1888, and numbered 3,877,) of which the following is a specification.

of securing the rails to railway-chairs and of securing the rails together, dispensing with fish-plates and fislrnuts and bolts.

In carrying this invention into effect I take a rail rolled to any section and punch therein a required number of recesses. The action of punching the rail on the one side to obtain the recesses forms lugs or nibs on the reverse side thereof. The chairs will be cast in two sizes, the larger being the joint-chairs and the smaller the intermediate chairs for supporting the rails between the joint-chairs. The said joint-chair has four or more recesses on the one side to receive a corresponding number of lugs or nibs on the rail and the opposite side is tapered and has a vertical recess therein. The intermediate chairs are cast without recesses on the one side,but have the vertical recess in the tapered side thereof. To hold the rails securely in the joint-chairs, I cast or otherwise make a plate having four or more nibs on the rail side to fit into the recesses in the rail and a vertical projection on the reverse side also, a taper wedge having 5 a vertical recess on the one side and a pro j ection on the other, which fitsinto the recess in the taper side 01 the said chair and having two holes therein to receive bolts, and being countersunk. lo bury the nuts, the said nuts being prevented from turning b v means of small keys The plate for the small chairs will be cast. without the nibs on the one side, but wil h the vertical projection or rib on the other, and the taper wedge will be made precisely the same as that for the joint-chairs but smaller, and with but one bolt-hole.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention, the following being a description 50 thereof, the same letters in the diiterent views reierrin to the same detail parts.

M y invention relates to an improved in ethod platc-nibs;

i rail 1" I force the taper A is the chair; 1 the rail; 0, the nibs; D, the recesses in the chair; E, the plate; F, the

G, the rail-recesses; H, the vertical projection or rib on the plate; Lthe taper wedge; J, the vertical projection or rib on the wedge; K, the nut and bolt; L, the slots; M, the small keys; N, the countersunk portions of the wedge; \V, the vertical recess in the wedge.

The following letters refer more particularly to the detail parts as described in the modification hereto:

and P are the wedge projections; Q, the the plate-nibs; R, the plate; 8, the longitudinal grooves or recesses; T, the taper wedge.

Figure 1 is a side view, in elevation, of the rail and chair. Fig. 2 is a plan in part section of Fig. 1 through W K. Fig. 3 is a side view, in elevation, of a T-rail and chair. Fig. 4: is a front elevation of a broken bull-head rail. Fig. 5 is a section of the rail through a nib. Fig. 6 is a front view, in elevation, of a T-rail. Fig. 7 is a section of a T-rail through a nib. Figs. 8 and 9 are plans of keys for preventing the bolt-nuts turning. Fig. 10 is a plan of the wedge. Fig. 11 is a side view, in elevation, of the wedge. Fig. 12 is a plan of the nibbed plate. Fig. 13 is a side view, in elevation,of the nibbed plate. 1-.lis aside view,

1 in elevation, of the rail and chair, shown as a modification. Fig. 15 is a plan of Fig. 1.1- through Y Z. Fig. 10 is a front elevation of the plate relating toFig. 14:. Fig. 17 is an end view of Fig. 16. Fig. 18 is an end view of the taper wedge relating to Fig. l-l. Fig. 19 is a front elevation of Fig. 18.

'When the nibbed plate F. is placed in the wedge I bet ween the taper side oi the chair A and the said plate E, and the projeclii'm .l' and the recess \Y pre vent it moving to either side, and two square headed bolls, K, passed in slots L in the side of the chair, and the wedge I, placed over the said bolts K and the n uts screwed thereon and into the countersunk poi-lions N, and the small keys M, fitted therein, retain the whole the said chair A.

lirmly in position. in

hereof, I construct the As a modification plate and wedge with longitudinal grooves or recesses and projections, instead of the vertical ones before described, dispensing with the nuts and bolts and having but one nib and one recess on each end of the rail, and the plate and chair corresponding thereto. In carrying this modification into eflfect the rail is placed in the chair and the plate R put next thereto, and the wedge T driven home in the ordinary manner, and the projection O, which is lower than the projection P, fits into the longitudinal recess S in the plate R, i and the projection P fits into the longitudii nal recess in the chair. Projection 0, being lower than projection P, forms the bind and holds the whole firmly in position.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent is i 1. A rail having ribs on one side and corresponding recesses in the other, in coinbination with a chair which has recesses to re ceive said ribs and an inclined face on the other side of said rail, a wedge fitting against said inclined face, and a movable plate having ribs which fit the recesses of the rail,said plate being held in position against said rail by said wedge, substantially as set forth.

9. A rail having recesses in oneside of it, in combination With a movable plate having ribs which fit into such recesses, and also a vertical rib or projection on its outer side, a wedge recessed to receive said rib, and a chair having an inclined face in contact with said wedge, substantially as set forth.

3. A rail having recesses on one side, in combination with a movable plate having ribs which fit into said recesses, and also a vertical rib or projection, H, on its outer face, a wedge recessed to receive said Vertical rib or projection, and also provided on its outer face with a similar rib or projection, J, and a chair having an inclined face for contact with said wedge, and also recessed to receive said projection J, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

GEORGE ILLIAM \VILLFORD.

*itnesses:

WM. MoGoWAN, FREDERICK F. HILBERT. 

